Who would Raiders take with 17th pick?

General manager Reggie McKenzie will have some time to kill Thursday night, as the Raiders don’t pick until No. 95. He said he would, just for the heck of it, decide who Oakland would pick 17th if it hadn’t traded that pick last year for Carson Palmer. Says here they would pick Alabama defensive end/linebacker Courtney Upshaw (think LaMarr Woodley) in a very tough call over Stanford guard David DeCastro, who I have slipping a little in my mock draft. Both are great values at 17.

The mock draft runs in Thursday’s paper, and we might make a couple of tiny changes (but not much). Here is a sneak preview: